Beethoven and his world
By: edited by Scott Burnham and Michael P. Steinberg
Contributors: Burnham, Scott G; Steinberg, Michael P; Bard Music Festival
Series: Princeton paperbacks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Beethoven, Ludwig van, -- 1770-1827
Notes: "Published in conjunction with the Bard Music Festival"--Half t.p

Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Heroic Beethoven. In the time(s) of the "Eroica" / Reinhold Brinkmann ; translated by Irene Zedlacher ; Beethoven, Florestan, and the varieties of heroism / Lewis Lockwood; title: Late Beethoven. Memory and invention at the threshold of Beethoven's late style / Elaine Sisman ; Voices and their rhythms in the first movement of Beethoven's piano sonata op. 109 : some thoughts on the performance and analysis of a late-style work / Glenn Stanley ; Voicing Beethoven's distant beloved / Nicholas Marston; title: Beethoven in the workshop. Keyboard instruments of the young Beethoven / Tilman Skowroneck ; Contrast and continuity in Beethoven's creative process / William Kinderman; title: Beethoven in the world. Performances of grief : Vienna's response to the death of Beethoven / Christopher Gibbs ; The visual Beethoven : whence, why, and whither the scowl? / Alessandra Comini ; Beethoven and masculinity / Sanna Pederson ; The search for meaning in Beethoven : popularity, intimacy, and politics in historical perspective / Leon Botstein